Chapter 87 Stay
There is one last solution.
"Lu Yishen."
"Um?"
"Have we met a long time ago?" Thinking about it carefully, she seemed to have always had a special trust and indulgence towards him. Although she herself had no memory of it, she had never felt that Lu Yishen was a stranger in her heart.
"Um."
"When and where?"
Lu Yishen sighed softly, then turned his head to meet Qin Shu's serious gaze: "In the fast-travel world, my name wasn't Lu Yishen at that time. My name was..."
"Zhou Yin isn't at Cape Town 1799. Others say she's on a solo mission today. She was still in contact an hour ago, but suddenly lost contact. We've retrieved her file and are analyzing it, but we don't think we'll find anything. After all, most of her biometric information is fake. She's probably using those full-body artificial skin and face masks we see on the black market."
Being able to hold a high-ranking position in the Interstellar Federation and even being assigned to protect the most important figure, Qin Shu, it can be seen that Zhou Yin's file must be very clean and perfect. In addition, although she looks careless, she is still cautious in her behavior and will not leave them with too much evidence that may easily arouse suspicion and expose her.
"The file is clean, but where are the people?" Qin Shu asked.
"people?"
"Records can be falsified, but people can't. It's just like soil. Didn't that expert say we shouldn't underestimate soil; it can reveal a lot of information. Soil formation is influenced by many factors, including climate, organisms, altitude, parent material, and time. By analyzing these factors, we can infer where the footprint owner has been. It's probably the same with people. Even if records can be falsified, people definitely leave behind some information."
"Aren't there a lot of unfamiliar planets in the soil analysis results just now? Since she has been to those places, there must be some use for them, right?" Lu Yishen also expressed his own opinion.
"But there are too many planets, and many of them do not belong to the Interstellar Federation. Although an investigation team has been dispatched to investigate, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We may not have enough time to wait for the results." Xu Wen frowned even tighter.
But just after he finished speaking, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought. After all, he and Zhou Yin were old acquaintances. He knew more about Zhou Yin than anyone else, such as Zhou Yin's preferences, eating habits, behavioral habits, occasional drunken talk, and dialect words he didn't understand that he blurted out without thinking. All the details that he had never noticed in daily life kept rolling over and over in his mind like a kaleidoscope.
Xu Wen reopened the terminal and looked at the soil analysis results. After about two minutes, he finally pointed to one of the planets and said, "Zhou Yin might be related to this place. I'll have the investigation team focus on investigating it."
"This planet... is also a numbered star?" Qin Shu was stunned when she saw this.
Unlike the numbered star A9011 which was famous in the black market, this numbered star was too inconspicuous. None of Qin Shu and her friends had ever heard of it. And judging from the length of the number, it was probably an extremely backward planet.
"There are almost no starship flights passing by this planet, and the information is relatively closed. Only the terminal in the central city can connect to the star network..." Xu Wen checked the information about this planet, but found that there was very little.
"Is it far from here?" Qin Shu no longer wanted to just sit and wait for the answer.
Xu Wen obviously knew how she felt right now: "If we rush over as quickly as possible, we'll be there in six hours."
Fortunately, they are now on Arkansas. If they were still in the Alpha Quadrant where the Interstellar Federation is located, it would probably take more than 24 hours to arrive.
"Let's go." Qin Shu made a decision.
Xu Wen was about to agree immediately, but at this moment, his terminal rang, and then a message popped up on his terminal screen.
It was a message that read "Unknown," and it only had a few words—
"Stay on Arkansas and don't move."
Xu Wen was stunned for a moment. Because it was an unknown message, there was no contact number displayed on it, and he couldn't call back. He could only quickly reply with a message: "Who are you?"
However, the terminal displays "message sending failed".
"What's wrong?" Seeing Xu Wen suddenly stunned, Qin Shu hurriedly asked.
Xu Wen directly displayed the terminal page: "I received a message from someone I don't know who it was from."
Qin Shu took a closer look at the message and felt that the tone was somewhat familiar: "...Zhou Yin?"
Xu Wen didn't say anything. It was obvious that he was also familiar with this tone. It was okay when Zhou Yin spoke face to face, but when he was sending messages alone, he still habitually used a military-style command tone from time to time.
However, it was just a text message, so it was very likely that they were just overthinking it.
"Didn't Omir leave behind a lot of programs and tutorials? Let's see if there's anything that can help us track down the source of this unknown information."
"We're already doing it, including searching for Queen Qin Xiao's whereabouts. We gave the order a long time ago." They have been trying their best to track down all the clues that may be related to the mastermind, KING.
"So should we leave now or stay?" Lu Yishen asked the most crucial question.
Do you really want to stay here for a piece of news from an unknown source?
They are now under time pressure and have no extra time for trial and error.
Besides, even if it was Zhou Yin, why would they trust her? Her identity was fake, so how could they expect her to remember their past? She had even just taken Qin Shu's body. Even if she wasn't the traveler who stole Qin Shu's system, she must be closely related to that traveler.
Do they need to listen to this kind of people?
But it doesn't seem good to just leave it alone like this.
This really posed a difficult problem for them.
"Ah..." Just as they were still thinking, Qin Shu looked at her body which had become more transparent. She couldn't help but wonder whether she could still communicate with Xu Wen, Lu Yishen and others even if she reached the numbered star after six hours.
After all, she didn't look like she could hold on until then.
"I'll stay." Looking at her increasingly transparent body, Qin Shu finally made a decision. "Didn't I send someone to the black market to buy that lamp that can illuminate soul shadows? Let's have them send it directly to Arkansas."
"Do you believe this information from an unknown source?" Xu Wen never expected Qin Shu to make such a decision.
"Not really. I just suddenly remembered that I had met Yun Shangjun before I went to the cave."
"What's wrong?"
"Yun Shangjun's face reading and divination skills are first-rate." Qin Shu finished speaking, then turned her head to look at Xu Wen. "He also saw the bloody disaster early on and even drew a talisman on my right hand to ward off the disaster."
"...Are you talking about the radio gymnastics? A flower pot fell from the upstairs, and you injured your hand trying to save me." Xu Wen also remembered after being reminded of this.
"Well, if I really had a big accident, Yun Shangjun wouldn't have had that nonchalant expression when he saw me just now."
After hearing this, Lu Yishen, although he didn't know much about what happened before, as someone who was not overly involved in it, he sometimes saw things more clearly: "Has Yun Shangjun met Zhou Yin?"
"I have met you." Xu Wen nodded.
"Did he remind you to be careful of Zhou Yin or something like that?" Lu Yishen asked again.
"No." Qin Shu shook her head.
"But her face might be fake, the face reading might not have worked, or she might have some props that prevent Yun Shangjun from seeing through her." Xu Wen had to think about these additional factors.
"First, Xiaoshu's appearance is a variable, right? Before she showed up, hadn't Zhou Yin been living in the Interstellar Federation with that face? So meeting Xiaoshu was a surprise, and she had no choice but to continue wearing that face. Secondly—Xiaoshu's recruitment of Yun Shangjun is also a variable, right? How could she possibly know in advance what kind of Heroic Spirit Xiaoshu would recruit, and what skills these Heroic Spirits possess? If she couldn't know in advance, how could she prevent herself from being read?"
"Speaking of which, Yun Shangjun was recruited for farming. We only found out later that he also had physiognomy and divination skills. Yun Shangjun had met Zhou Yin before that," Qin Shu added. "And physiognomy isn't just about looking at the skin; it's more about the bones."
After all, he is a fast traveler and has been to these worlds, so naturally he knows these things.
Otherwise, since the twins look so similar, do they have similar fates?
"But these are just speculations. We can't even be sure whether the message was sent by Zhou Yin. It would be too hasty to believe the message just for this reason." Xu Wen frowned.
"So, what I said is that I will stay." Zhou Yin looked at Xu Wen.
Xu Wen was slightly startled, then he finally understood what Qin Shu meant: "Okay, I will go to that numbered star myself."
Xu Wen had gotten used to being with Qin Shu, so he didn't immediately understand that this wasn't a matter of choosing which side to believe and which side to give up. Qin Shu was trying to grab both sides and not give up on either.
Lu Yishen took a deep look at Qin Shu, who was becoming increasingly transparent, and slowly said, "Do what you want to do, what you should do. Even if... there is still one last way."
"What method?" Qin Shu always felt that there was something wrong with Lu Yishen's words, as if he was saying goodbye to her.
Lu Yishen just smiled, then gently patted the back of Qin Shu's hand and said, "First, remember the situation when we first met, and I will tell you what the solution is."
"Can't you tell me now?"
"Well, because it is a method that can only be used as a last resort, what I say now will not work when the time comes." Lu Yishen said casually.
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